Climate change is not global warming necessarily. It's the addition of energy to the planet's climate due to more CO2 being added to the atmosphere and the unknown consequences of what all that added energy will do to the system. But wouldn't it be weird if the result of more CO2 was the formation of a new ice age? I wonder which would be worse for humanity, an ice age or a desert age? Looking at the East Coast and the Middle of the country right now, I think an ice age would be far more difficult for modern humans to adapt to than a desert age.

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Here in Russia we had temp above 0C for whole Dec and beginning of Jan and nearly no snow! When it is should be -5 to -10 C in the day on average and yet colder in the night! Don't think it can be ignored or treated as "exaggeration by alarmists", and this is not the first winter like that, third in a row at least!

And if you'd been paying the slightest attention, China has been kicking our ass when it comes to investing in renewable energy. Unlike the fuckwit-in-chief, they can actually understand basic science.

China's rulers are smart enough to see which way the wind is blowing, unlike the dotard-in-chief. Honestly it doesn't even matter all that much whether their concerns are environmental or economic, as long as they're doing stuff.

I work for a company that makes industrial and commercial burners for heating boilers and the like, China is currently a huge market because the government mandated replacing all the boilers/heaters in the country with low emissions units like modern designs instead of the 50 year old wrecks they have been using. It isn't just electricity they are cleaning up the act on, they are hitting everything.

(BTW, the air quality in China is so bad in places it clogs the intake filters on a burner in 3 days of use compared to lasting a full heating season in America.)

Sooooo, what will the U.S. do with it's mountains of trash now, especially since we've embraced buying everything on the internet? Sent it to Bangladesh or Africa now to hide it? How environmentally conscious of us. Dump it on someone else.

Sooooo, what will the U.S. do with it's mountains of trash now, especially since we've embraced buying everything on the internet? Sent it to Bangladesh or Africa now to hide it? How environmentally conscious of us. Dump it on someone else.

The globe as a whole had record heat recently THREE years in a row from 2014-2016, and these records were not broken, they were smashed. And 2017 was still on a far higher level of warmth than any year before 2015.

In the USA, the last three years are among the four hottest back to 1895, and averaged over the year as a whole, every single state was warmer than average in 2015, in 2016, and again in 2017 - also three years running. It's coast to coast heat on long timescales.

And 2017's hurricane/wildfire season was the costliest/rivaling the most destructive on record for the nation. It's a grim picture.

Here is an article I like that came out 2 years ago, after 2015's record heat was made official. It doesn't even reflect another record in 2016 or an extremely warm 2017. But I believe what it says is very accurate and truthful.

I genuinely think that this clusterfuck of an administration's stance on climate change is the strongest argument against our current representative democracy I've seen in my lifetime. People who have no grounding in a particular scientific or technical field have absolutely no goddamn business making far-reaching policy decisions related to that field. Give me an intellocracy before the entire planet is fucked.